Hair-comb.



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WILLIAM CHRISTIAN SCHULZ, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

HAIR-COMB Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J uly 30, 1907.

Application filed January 18,1907. $erial No. 352,947.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM CHRISTIAN SeHULz, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hair- Oombs, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention has relation to improvements in hair combs; and it consists in the novel details of construction more fully set forth in the specification and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of the completed comb, broken at parts; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal edge view; Fig. 3 is an end View of the male section; Fig. 4 is a plan of the male section; Fig. 5 is a plan of the female section; Fig. 6 is an end view of the female section; and Fig. 7 is a cross section on the line 7-7 of Fig. 1.

The object of my invention is to construct a comb of two sections separable from one another so that the teeth of the comb can be cleaned to better advantage, thereby producing a comb which from a sanitary standpoint is unsurpassed.

In detail the invention may be described as follows: Referring to the drawings, 1, represents the body portion of what I term the male section of the comb, the same being provided with teeth 15, and 2 the female section provided with teeth 17. The opposite ends of the female body portion terminate in inwardly turned flanges or equivalent formations 3 forming grooves or ways with the body proper for the reception of the body of the male portion. The teeth of the respective portions or sections are so distributed that when the sections are assembled (Fig. I) the teeth of one section alternate with those of the contiguous section so that they conform in proximity to those of an ordinary comb. The bases of the teeth 11 curve inwardly toward the body 2 forming a series of offsets or ledges 4 1 on which the lower edge of the body 1 rests, this arrangement serving to bring the teeth of the assembled sections virtually in the same plane (Fig. '7). It will be seen that the male section is readily inscrtible into the female section and as readily separable therefrom, and that by taking the sections apart, the teeth are readily accessible and hence permit of perfect cleaning. When the parts are assembled one set of teeth become the complement of the adjacent set, thus making a perfect comb.

Having described my invention what I claim is:

A comb comprising a male section having a toothed body portion, a female section having a toothed body portion, terminal grooves or ways on the female section for receiving the body of the male section, offsets forming collectively a ledge, connecting the bases of the teeth of the female section to the body thereof, the toothed edge of the male section resting on and positively supported by said ledge, whereby the teeth of the respective sections are brought into the same plane, the teeth of one section alternating with those of the adjacent section, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature, in presence of two witnesses. 

